It was designed by local architect Levi Weeks and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

[3] David Williams, according to census records of 1782, 1786 and 1792 was one of the wealthiest men in the country at the time.

Later, the house was inherited by Maria McIntosh Williams, the wife of Winthrop Sargent (1753–1820), who served as the first Governor of the Mississippi Territory from 1798 to 1801.

[3][4][5] It was then inherited by their son, George Washington Sargent, who was killed inside the house by Union forces in the American Civil War of 1861–1865.

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